Definitions for DELUSIONS
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1. delusions

   A delusion is a false fixed belief that is not amenable to change in light of conflicting evidence. As a pathology, it is distinct from a belief based on false or incomplete information, confabulation, dogma, illusion, hallucination, or some other misleading effects of perception, as individuals with those beliefs are able to change or readjust their beliefs upon reviewing the evidence. However: "The distinction between a delusion and a strongly held idea is sometimes difficult to make and depends in part on the degree of conviction with which the belief is held despite clear or reasonable contradictory evidence regarding its veracity."Delusions have been found to occur in the context of many pathological states (both general physical and mental) and are of particular diagnostic importance in psychotic disorders including schizophrenia, paraphrenia, manic episodes of bipolar disorder, and psychotic depression.

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1. Delusions

   A false belief regarding the self or persons or objects outside the self that persists despite the facts, and is not considered tenable by one's associates.

How to pronounce DELUSIONS?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of DELUSIONS in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of DELUSIONS in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of DELUSIONS in a Sentence

1. Ernest Hello:

   There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.

2. Marion Garretty:

   Poets generally love cats -- because poets have no delusions about their own superiority.

3. Adrienne Rich:

   Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

4. Christian Nestell Bovee:

   No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

5. Charles Krauthammer:

   What struck me above all was not the misstatement of facts or the delusions about what's going on, it's the president's tone. There was this lassitude, passivity, annoyance, he was irritable, you know, 'You guys asking me again if the strategy is working,' as if it's all so obvious that it is.

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References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delusions